Role Overview
A DevOps Engineer with 3 - 5 years of experience is a mid-to-senior professional who bridges software development and IT operations, focusing on automation, scalability, and reliability.
They design, implement, and manage infrastructure and workflows to accelerate delivery while ensuring system resilience and security.
Role Description
As a DevOps engineer, you should have the ability to manage CI/CD pipelines (Azure), automate deployments, and use infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform.
Additionally, proficiency in monitoring and logging with tools like Prometheus or the ELK stack is required. Knowledge of cloud platforms like Azure and GCP is essential. Collaboration with developers and IT staff to manage applications and infrastructure is part of the role, along with optimizing the infrastructure to control cloud costs. Automating day-to-day tasks using scripting languages such as Shell, Python, or Go is also necessary.
Role Requirements & Capabilities
CI/CD & Automation:
Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Azure DevOps and Argo CD.
Automate build, test, and deployment processes to improve efficiency.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
Manage infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible.
Ensure infrastructure is scalable, resilient, and version controlled.
Cloud & Server Management:
Deploy and manage applications on Azure, GCP, or on-prem servers.
Optimize cloud costs and ensure security best practices.
Containerization & Orchestration:
Work with Docker and Kubernetes for containerized application deployment.
Manage cluster scaling, networking, and security in K8s environments.
Monitoring & Logging:
Set up monitoring tools like Prometheus, ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Azure Monitor
Ensure proactive incident response with log analysis and alerting mechanisms.
Security & Compliance:
Implement security best practices in CI/CD, cloud, and server configurations.
Manage role-based access controls (RBAC), secrets management, and vulnerability scanning.
Scripting & Automation:
Write scripts in Bash, Python, or Go for automation tasks.
Optimize system performance through automated solutions
Why join Kantar?
We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world.
And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.
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Kantar Rewards Statement
At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.
We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us.
We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well being is taken into consideration.
We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.
Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.